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A Round Table was a festive event during the Middle Ages that involved jousting, feasting, and dancing in imitation of King Arthur's legendary court. Named for Arthur's famed Round Table , the festivals generally involved jousts with blunted weapons, and often celebrated weddings or victories.
The Round Table takes on new dimensions in the romances of the late 12th and early 13th century, where it becomes a symbol of the famed order of chivalry which flourishes under Arthur. In Robert de Boron 's Merlin , written around 1200, the magician Merlin creates the Round Table in imitation of the table of the Last Supper and of Joseph of ...
Ubiquitous Knight of the Round Table; various stories and origins are given for him Segurant: Sigurant, Seguarant, Sigurant Segurant, the Knight of the Dragon, late 13th century. Prophecies of Merlin: Knight of the Isle of Not-Knowing, son of Hector the Brown, Dragon slayer, Segwarides† Le Morte d'Arthur, Prose Tristan
The Knights of the Round Table (Welsh: Marchogion y Ford Gron, Cornish: Marghogyon an Moos Krenn, Breton: Marc'hegien an Daol Grenn) are the legendary knights of the fellowship of King Arthur that first appeared in the Matter of Britain literature in the mid-12th century.
Round Tables were a 13th-century enthusiasm and can be reconstructed to have been an elimination jousting event. They were held for knights and squires alike. Other forms of jousting also arose during the century, and by the 14th century the joust was poised to take over the vacancy in aristocratic amusement caused by the decline of the tournament.
Dagonet / ˈ d æ ɡ ə n ɛ t, d æ ɡ ə ˈ n ɛ t / (also known as Daguenet, Daguenes, Daguenez, Danguenes, and other spellings) is a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend.His depictions and characterisations variously portray a foolish and cowardly knight, a violently deranged madman, to the now-iconic image of King Arthur's beloved court jester.
Layamon or Laghamon (UK: / ˈ l aɪ. ə m ə n,-m ɒ n /, US: / ˈ l eɪ. ə m ə n, ˈ l aɪ-/; Middle English:) – spelled Laȝamon or Laȝamonn in his time, occasionally written Lawman – was an English poet of the late 12th/early 13th century and author of the Brut, a notable work that was the first to present the legends of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table in English poetry ...
Lamorak / ˈ l æ m ə r ə k / (or Lamerak, [1] Lamorac(k), Lamorat, Lamerocke, and other spellings) is a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend.Introduced in the Prose Tristan, Lamorak reappears in later works including the Post-Vulgate Cycle and Thomas Malory's compilation Le Morte d'Arthur.